27 "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Jesus is always telling us, "Fear not. Don't be afraid. Rest in Me." Part of His last will and testament to us was this: Shalom. "Peace."
He does not want us to be afraid or to live in fear. But Jesus always goes FAR beyond merely telling us about this; He shows us.
Throughout the Bible, the Holy Spirit draws us beautiful pictures to help, to encourage and bless us, even through the Hebrew lettters themselves.
[פ] Pei=mouth
[ח] Chet or het=fence, pronounced like a gutteral "k."
[ד] Dalet=door
When you are afraid, what's the natural human response? To fence yourself off, sit down and withdraw, curl up in a ball, maybe? At any rate, you are certainly not motivated to confess God's positive word, so "FEAR" to God means:
"You have "fenced off the 'door' of your mouth." That is also what God says causes you to fear.
Fear is actually worship and meditating only in reverse. We don't want to fear anything or anyone except God, right? This is most likely the major reason the angels are always saying "Fear not," when they appear to people.
Remember the Angel in Revelation 22:9? He told John not to worship him. He said, "Fear not," and said "worship (fear) only God.
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FEAR-LESS on the other hand, is spelled like this:
[לאפחד]
Lopechad, literally "no fear." NO in Hebrew is "lo [לא]"
When you "learn: lamed-[ל]" of Jesus and His "sacrifice-aleph [א]mon the cross, He stands between you and your fears and you become....
Throughout the Bible, the Holy Spirit draws us beautiful pictures to help, to encourage and bless us, even through the Hebrew lettters themselves.
Hebrew reads from right to left and is a form of picture writing, like Chinese. These pictures are very consistent. There are 22 letters in all. They tell a story you would never find in any definition and give us a glimpse from God's perspective.
This is how you spell "fear" in Hebrew:
[פחד]
Pechad
Pechad
[פ] Pei=mouth
[ח] Chet or het=fence, pronounced like a gutteral "k."
[ד] Dalet=door
When you are afraid, what's the natural human response? To fence yourself off, sit down and withdraw, curl up in a ball, maybe? At any rate, you are certainly not motivated to confess God's positive word, so "FEAR" to God means:
"You have "fenced off the 'door' of your mouth." That is also what God says causes you to fear.
Fear is actually worship and meditating only in reverse. We don't want to fear anything or anyone except God, right? This is most likely the major reason the angels are always saying "Fear not," when they appear to people.
Remember the Angel in Revelation 22:9? He told John not to worship him. He said, "Fear not," and said "worship (fear) only God.
(For more on this topic, follow this link:
FEAR-LESS on the other hand, is spelled like this:
[לאפחד]
Lopechad, literally "no fear." NO in Hebrew is "lo [לא]"
These two letters that have been added to "pechad" are:
[ל] Lamed=learn; a picture of an ox goad
[ל] Lamed=learn; a picture of an ox goad
[א] Aleph=ox, sacrifice, which refers to Jesus.
When you "learn: lamed-[ל]" of Jesus and His "sacrifice-aleph [א]mon the cross, He stands between you and your fears and you become....
Lopechad [לאפחד] FEARLESS!
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